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  • Members: 937
  • Category: Poland
  • Founded: Sep 18, 2001
  • Language: English
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(See also http://www.Kresy-Siberia.org) The "Kresy-Siberia Group" brings into contact people from countries around the world with a special interest in the fate of over one million Polish citizens of various faiths and ethnicities (Polish, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Catholic, Orthodox, Jewish, etc.) arrested or deported from eastern Poland (Kresy) to special labour camps in Siberia, Kazakhstan and Soviet Asia. The circumstances of their odyssey and the tragic history of the Polish citizens under Soviet occupation during WW2 was hushed up by the Allies during the war to protect the reputation of the Soviet Union, an important ally fighting the Nazis.

Sixty years later the survivors have aged and many have died. With this list we hope to bring together surviving deportees and their descendants to remember, learn, discover and spread the word of their ordeal to the world and to future generations.

If this list group can play even a small role in that effort, it will have been an important achievement.

"Niektorzy w naszej grupie mowia i po polsku i po angielsku, wiec prosze sie nie krepowac pisac po Polsku i przetlumaczymy tresc Waszego pisma. Niestety, nie stac nam na przetlumaczeniu wszystkich pism angielskich na polski, ale zaprasamy Wam sobie przetlumaczyc poprzez strony http://www.google.pl/language_tools?hl=pl".

The above photo is of Basia Sgrunowska and Farynka Sgrunowska on the train from Lugova to Krasnovodzk (in the evacuation to Persia after their release from exile in the USSR), 23 March 1942 (private archives of Zofia Jordanowska - courtesy of VideoFact).

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PolArt invited you to "Dozynki 2009" on Monday, December 28 at 11:00am. Event: Dozynki 2009 What: Festival Start Time: Monday, December 28 at 11:00am End Time:
Posted - Fri Nov 27, 2009 9:41 am
Lucyna Artymiuk
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Kresy connection to Jewish Survivor and Catholic Rescuer Reunion
Jozef Bonder, orginally from the village of Faszczowka, was sheltered by the Firuta family in the village of Ostra Mogila in Skalat County
Posted - Fri Nov 27, 2009 6:00 am
Andrzej w Buffalo
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THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT YOU CAN FIND IN THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL A
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Re: karta
Hi All, Does anyone know the significance of the ID number on the karta? It seems that all the ID's for my family members run in a sequential order. May I
Posted - Fri Nov 27, 2009 3:29 am
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karta
Hello, A few questions re. karta.  I did find my entire family who were deported. I believe that this information may not be completely accurate?? For
Posted - Fri Nov 27, 2009 1:44 am
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